Swann's Way

One of the best books for kids is Swanns Way about a sensitive boy who has memories of his family and neighbours that are brilliantly brought back to life by the taste of a madeleine years later. Additionally it encompasses the brief novel Swann in Love an unparalleled exploration of sexual jealousy that plays a critical role in the expansive expanding plot of In Search of Lost Time. Swanns Way the first instalment of the work that made Proust one of the finest writers of the modern era is also a perfect depiction of a life in the arts and of the past reconstructed through memory. It is satirical sceptical confiding and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition.